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MICHAEL F. EASLEY
GOVERNOR
POISON PREVENTION WEEK
2006
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, our society has become increasingly dependent on household chemicals to perform
labor-saving, time-saving miracles, and we depend on medicine to provide health-giving, life-sustaining
benefits; and · ·
WHEREAS, these products, when not used as intended or directed, may be extremely hazardous,
particularly if children gain access to them; and
WHEREAS, over the past44 years, the Nation has observed Poison Prevention Week to call
attention to these hazards, and how proper handling and disposal of these substances and proper use of
safety packaging can help eliminate them; and
WHEREAS, the efforts of our state organizations have significantly reduced childhood poisonings
in North Carolina; and ·
WHEREAS, these programs must continue as long as even one child swallows a household
product or medicine by accident;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, MICHAEL F. EASLEY, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do
hereby proclaim March 19-25,2006, as "POISON PREVENTION WEEK" in North Carolina. I
encourage the appropriate agencies in our local govenunent to continue their cooperation with c.oncemed
citizens and community organizations, including our schools, to develop programs which will alert our
people to the continued danger of misusing medicines and household products, and to promote effective
safeguards against accidental poisonings among young children.
MICHAEL F. EASLEY
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and afftxed tl1e Great Seal of the State of
North Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this seventeenth day of March in the year of our Lord two
thousand and six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirtieth.

MICHAEL F. EASLEY
GOVERNOR
POISON PREVENTION WEEK
2006
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, our society has become increasingly dependent on household chemicals to perform
labor-saving, time-saving miracles, and we depend on medicine to provide health-giving, life-sustaining
benefits; and · ·
WHEREAS, these products, when not used as intended or directed, may be extremely hazardous,
particularly if children gain access to them; and
WHEREAS, over the past44 years, the Nation has observed Poison Prevention Week to call
attention to these hazards, and how proper handling and disposal of these substances and proper use of
safety packaging can help eliminate them; and
WHEREAS, the efforts of our state organizations have significantly reduced childhood poisonings
in North Carolina; and ·
WHEREAS, these programs must continue as long as even one child swallows a household
product or medicine by accident;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, MICHAEL F. EASLEY, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do
hereby proclaim March 19-25,2006, as "POISON PREVENTION WEEK" in North Carolina. I
encourage the appropriate agencies in our local govenunent to continue their cooperation with c.oncemed
citizens and community organizations, including our schools, to develop programs which will alert our
people to the continued danger of misusing medicines and household products, and to promote effective
safeguards against accidental poisonings among young children.
MICHAEL F. EASLEY
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and afftxed tl1e Great Seal of the State of
North Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this seventeenth day of March in the year of our Lord two
thousand and six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirtieth.